Just what does server2003 let me do?
From: Development at American Savings (dev_at_americansavingslife.com)
Date: 06/24/04
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Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:40:00 -0700
Hello,
I'm working for a company that is in the midst of planning a major overhaul
of their entire computing system. I have tried to read up on the
documentation of windows server 2003 but there are so many packages and
products available that it seems a bit confusing. We're planning on having
xp pro clients and developing new software in .net, we would have DB2 UDB as
our database and would want
1) Something to do domain controlling
2) Something for email / calendar sharing
3) Something to throw up asp.net web pages
Now, it's my understanding that windows server 2003 will do all the domain
stuff naturally (I.e. no add on software required) (btw - just what does
active directory do for me? I can't find a good description on the MS
website of just what it does).
It is also my understanding that exchange server is what I need to email and
calendar/task sharing -- is exchange included with server 2003 or is it
something that I need to buy separately?
Furthermore it's my understanding that IIS is what I need to serve asp.net
pages - is IIS Microsoft's equivalent of Apache? Is that also something I
need to buy separately?
We're not a large corporation so we don't need anything too fancy, but we do
all of our own software development and web hosting so quality products are
important. I imagine that the synergy we'd see from having multiple MS
products working together would be worthwhile (as opposed to trying to set
up a PDC with samba and using mono somehow to help serve asp.net products,
then trying to maintain it all...) but I just don't know enough about the
products to really report much to my boss.
Any help out there? (Anyone still reading after such a long post?) ;-)
Much thanks,
Development Staff
American Savings Life Ins. Co.
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